Sunday, May 10, 2009

No big surprises here, but I held onto scans of the layouts, pencils and inks so I thought this would be worth posting to show the way things developed from rough idea to final colors. This was published in DC's "52", number 13, 2006. It's the first of two pages.

I've liked this character since I first saw him in Detective Comics in the 60's. I don't remember which issue it was but the story had some beautiful Carmine Infantino art. For a change, he was doing his own inks and even though they were a little "scratchy" compared to Anderson and Giella, they looked great to my young eyes. Lots of energy and imaginative design work.

2 comments:

Still like on this page the last image on the page (lower right) how you shaded the hand. You didn't skimp on shading the various folds on the skin where the bones move to the knuckles and how the veins run over the bones. Just adds a little more depth to a cool page.

When you did these pages, were you asked to really "tell a story" or basically just link images together based on the origin points? I could see that being tough to try to do any sort of storytelling in one or two pages.